Such a lovely corner of paradise

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Paradise beaches and scenic beauty, this is what most tourists come to Saint Martin for. A few weeks before the high season, certain areas of the island still leave something to be desired in terms of cleanliness. On the side of the road which leads to Oyster Pond, the postcard is far from being idyllic: waste, carcasses, abandoned containers, jails and heaps of rubble as decoration. Images that tourists will long remember. Thank you to one of our readers for the pictures.

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  1. Liz October 29, 2015 at 15:40 pm Reply

    We will always manage to find corners of the island that will not be of “standing”. But to say that the island is dirty in these few photos is a little pushed because these areas are not touristy.

    • Valérie October 29, 2015 at 18:27 pm Reply

      Error, you do not know how many tourists pass each year by this tourist route, Quad, Jeep, Small cars with 3 wheels, because ect, they are thousands of American, Canadian tourists, cruise passengers especially but also Europeans.
      Only one place with its small fishermen's huts remains almost clean, but again, I walk past them every day. These are just plastic bottles, cans and various litter that you will have under your feet, I invite you to browse the seaside in this sector.
      What a pity !!! We absolutely have to keep our tourists, with the opening of CUBA, the whole economy of the island is likely to suffer !!

  2. yann October 29, 2015 at 16:03 pm Reply

    Liz of course that the island is dirty it is not hard to find these places! it is rather the clean places that we must look for! and the road to Oyster Pond sees tourists pass by every day….

  3. Liz October 30, 2015 at 00:17 pm Reply

    My answer was truncated. I said that this road is only an access to tourist sites and not a tourist place as such.
    To illustrate that the island is dirty, it seems to me that it would be more relevant to show photos of the tourist sites themselves, those for which tourists will stop to take pictures, eat, have a drink, stroll. No pictures of stacked car wrecks and rotting forgotten containers ...
    Because yes, the island is dirty and poorly maintained. And yes, foreign competition will be felt with the opening of Cuba's doors to the Americans.
    Rubbish everywhere; the many pretty Creole huts in ruins; the Sargassum that covers the beaches where there is no restaurant or bar to clean them (visual pollution as nauseating or even infectious), the service not always up to the prices but above all, first and foremost, increasing crime… Ca , these are things that threaten the island's tourism industry. Not the pile of car wrecks in a corner where they just pass quickly. That is the exoticism, the somewhat third world side of the island.
    Here. I had made it too short the first time and therefore had not been clear on what I meant.

  4. Rebecca October 30, 2015 at 20:48 pm Reply

    Hello, it is true that Saint Martin French Coast and Dutch Coast could be cleaner. Many people are in the habit of throwing things away without importing or, even if there is news everywhere, throwing things out of windows in conduits, throwing a plastic bottle because we have finished the juice, passing a bottle of vierte because we no longer need etc etc ... a lot of things after entering our beautiful ocean etc. We do everything because not everyone is not careful but why not put in the trash and show our children an example, show them that we respect what God created, or for others simply respect nature, fish that live in the water, the birds that fly high above our heads .... it is not worth accusing you have to start with yourself with the little things

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